"When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul"

"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied"

"I have a brain and a uterus and I use both"

"Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied"

"A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart"

"Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain"

"He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door"

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking"

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice"

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office"